A Maronite Christian man has made it his life’s work to revive the Aramaic language, which was spoken during Biblical times by Jesus Christ, writes the CBC’s Derek Stoffel.

Aramaic belongs to the Semitic language group historically centred in the Middle East. Within Semitic it is classified with the Northwest Semitic languages.

He discusses the Aramaic language and the historical evidence for the language or languages most likely to have been spoken by Jesus and his contemporaries.

Once the language of Christ, Aramaic is slowly dying. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine outlines what one linguist and his colleagues are doing to document and preserve what was once the ...

The language of Palestine shifted from Hebrew to Aramaic, and it’s believed that Jesus and his disciples spoke Aramaic. The New Testament Gospels, written in Greek, occasionally quote Jesus in ...

She researches Neo-Aramaic - the language of Jewish and Christian minorities from Kurdish Iraq. She also teaches and works on Biblical and Modern Hebrew.

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used.